Jack of Harts

New Hong Kong is a crowning jewel of Micronesia and all of Pacifica. Their business is business, much like Hong Kong of old, and all major international corporations maintain at least an office in their skyscrapers to better negotiate business deals or potential funding. Many lease permanent space in the massive harbors built all around Tinian and other nearby islands for transshipping cargo from all over the world, and their proximity to Australia’s Jayapura Elevator that they helped fund gives them easy access to the interplanetary and interstellar trade routes as well. They practice a laissez-faire free market with minimal government intrusion, and have long made it a practice to lend or gift money and other resources to any business venture they think has a good chance of succeeding. They are even extremely lenient when ventures fail. They never forgive the debts, mind you, but they do not break kneecaps until they get repaid. That would be uncivilized. But there is no declaring bankruptcy on a debt to a New Hong Kong businessman, and a failure today may make themselves a fortune tomorrow. New Hong Kong is willing to wait for such fortunes to rise, which has greatly helped their own fortunes as lifespans have increased over the centuries.